Archive for November 2012

City v Villa (League) – Sat 17 Nov [5v0 win]

November 20, 2012 admin Matches No comments

The age old City problem happened again on Saturday. Fans tend to not turn up for the more unfashionable games which is understandable especially as we have Real Madrid at home 4 days later and the inevitable happens City win 5-0 for the first time this season and it was quite a good game to boot.

I’m sure by now we’ve all heard about the controversial penalty but I don’t believe it changed anything City were in front & even though Aston Villa looked dangerous on the break we looked totally in control of the game. Had the referee not given the penalty for hand ball he might well have given it due to Vincent Kompany being stopped from receiving the cross due to being held back by the centre half – even the BBC missed that but it appears they miss a lot of things these days.

Stephen Ireland was given a standing ovation by the City fans when he was substituted, personally I couldn’t see any reason for the change especially as Villa started loosing heavily once those changes were made, he played a lot better than I’ve seen him play since he left City.

Vincent Kompany seems to be getting back to his great form of last season, Nastasic is a very intelligent player who seems to be settling down slowly but surely, Maicon was always dangerous when going forward, it’s whether he can get back quickly when we are defending

that may be a problem. Samir Nasri is improving from last year which is probably about time, probably the injury spell which Silva suffered has helped give him more confidence. Silva’s presence has made a big difference as well – a Sterling shift by the wee man, and talking about our other ‘wee men’ Tevez & Aguerro seem to be linking-up well & two goals apiece albeit a goal & a penalty each shows they are coming back to form, although Aguerro still isn’t as sharp as he was prior to his injury.

A great Saturday night was had having heard the Chelski score and then the

Canaries were tweeting as well – top of the league – great but if we are still there after the derby match, I might start believing we can do two in a row.

Have a very safe journey if you’re going down to the Real Madrid game, I’ll probably see you there & if you can’t go let’s hope we win anyway.

All the best & CTID

Cheers

Deryck

City v Spurs (League) – Sun 11th Nov [2v1 win]

November 20, 2012 admin About the club, Matches No comments

Left Aberdeen at 0900 Saturday morning & picked up members at Laurencekirk, Dundee & Edinburgh to make it three short of a full coach.

An 8 hour journey included a 45 minute stop for a meal etc.

An overnight stay in Manchester began by meeting in Weatherspoons Piccadilly at 1900, a couple of drinks later everyone went on their way, some night clubbing others for a meal, finally got to bed at 1am.

Travel bags were transferred in the morning to the coach & then it was off to the Townley for pre-match drinks.

City started well but could not score then on 20 minutes Spurs ran up the field & Caulker scored, helped by a rare Joe Hart fumble & poor refereeing not to say anything about the quality of the linesmen.

It was still 0-1 after a poor 1st half.

City started the second half brightly but it wasn’t until the 66th minute that  scored good work by Yaya and Silva.

City played really from then on despite Spurs changing 3 players.

Nastasic was switched for Maicon & made a big difference as soon as he came on. Dzeko took Tevez’ place and from a half chance once again scored the winner; leaving it until the 88th minute this time.

Gale Clichy took a well deserved Man of the Match Award with Zabaleta not very far behind.

The boys in blue hung on to the final whistle and thereby created a new City Premier

League Record of 32 unbeaten home league games. Brilliant stuff especially for City.

We met up at the Townley after the game & the coach left at 1600 and we were back in Aberdeen for 0030.

It was great meeting everyone again especially those from further away, hope you enjoyed it.

I would like to thank Des for all his efforts in organising the coach – it’s a big responsibility, and also to David & Richard for organising tickets for those who needed them